The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . he projectedcolony. De Monts, theleader, was a Huguenot,and there were associ-ated witii him such ableand ! Catholics asIontgravc, de Cliam-plain, dc dc Bicncourt. Nev-citheless, as a Huguenotcnter|)rise, the projectwholly mi>carried. Par-ly S]iirit still ran sohigh that, during thevoyage out, priests and ministers came to personal encounters; and it is significant that intiiis mode of argument tli(^ cliampions of Kume generally came oilvictorious. Besides, it had been stipulated that the natives, who-econver
The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . he projectedcolony. De Monts, theleader, was a Huguenot,and there were associ-ated witii him such ableand ! Catholics asIontgravc, de Cliam-plain, dc dc Bicncourt. Nev-citheless, as a Huguenotcnter|)rise, the projectwholly mi>carried. Par-ly S]iirit still ran sohigh that, during thevoyage out, priests and ministers came to personal encounters; and it is significant that intiiis mode of argument tli(^ cliampions of Kume generally came oilvictorious. Besides, it had been stipulated that the natives, who-econversion was to l»c specially undertaken, were to be timglit Hietenets of Komanism. In consequence of this condition all Pnile>l:inlinlere,-t in the colony naturally soon died out ; an<l. upon liu- a-;s;i-;-sination of Henry the Fourti), in MIO, Jesuit inlluence triumphed,not only in this colony, but throughout New France. In tlie meantime,however, the Huguenot immigration lo . anotiurand more successful form. Indeed, fnnn the earliest. w- 416 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN KPISCOPAL (HURCIT. times, a considerable number of Huguenots, threatened by somespecial danger, discouraged by the successive defeats which llicy sus-tained, or tired out by the reigning intolerance of king and pope, hadtaken refuge in (xermany, Switzerland, Holland, and Kngland. Thenumber of these earlier refugees was largely increased after the mas-sacre of 8t. Bartholomew, in 1572, and tiie captiu-e of La Rochcllo,the most important of the Protestant strongholds, in ll)2f<. After thelatter event the Huguenots were reduced lo the humiliating positionof a tolerated sect, and their few remaining privileges, notwithstand-ing the rights guaranteed to them by tlie lOdict of Xantes, were dailycurtailed. In 1<)85 that edict itself was formally revoked, and thestream of Huguenot emigration, which had become deep and continu-ous some years before, now reached its maximum volume. By theaid of these
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